like for a starter from lucy maclean! set during the fallout tv show as i slowly familiarize myself with the wider lore. may or may not be stolen from a meme/song lyric. mutuals only, multis please specify muse/s, etc!

Why must Lucy and Cooper be Joel and Ellie and not, for example, Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp? (I'm thinking of them in the 1993 neo western classic "Tombstone" but their overall mythology as well). The decent cowboy with grit who inspires the fierce loyalty of a lovable rogue (who is only a rogue because of personal tragedy). Lucy has a little growing to do, but she can pull off steely decency that motivates the loyalty of a rogue already she just needs practice and to expand her experience of the Wasteland. If you don't arbitrarily limit her to female roles there's tons of options.

They're letting her draw on all kinds of stories as a protagonist like the John McClane references. Her story is so far about trying to be like a Wyatt earp - both gritty and decent. Golden rule, motherfucker. Why, in all of Westerns, are people saying she's a little girl?

A little girl who isn't (in season 1/game one of tlou) even the protagonist. Lucy MacLean is the lead protagonist? She's not a child sidekick to Cooper like Ellie is to Joel?? Even if Cooper tries to shove her into a daughter role to make sense of things, there's zero evidence in canon that she wants a father figure.

Ellie campaigned hard to be Joel's daughter because that's what she wanted. She'd never had a parent and she desperately wanted one. A father isn't what Lucy wants. She told herself she was leaving the vault to find her dad and she does love her family --and now she does want answers re: all that -- but she wanted to get tf out of there too imo. She's curious and wants more from life. She's still figuring herself out, but wherever she comes to, it won't be to wanting a simple return to the metaphorical "womb" of the vault she left and/or be a parent's child again - it's to grow up. Forge her own path, make her own mistakes. Figure out who she is. She already has a father; Ellie never did. She's an adult; Ellie is a child. She's the lead protagonist of an ensemble where the male characters are, respectively, her echo (Max) with a similar arc and her shadow (Cooper); Ellie was a sidekick to a protagonist in game 1/season 1.

It's amusing to me to think of Cooper trying to be like a dad to her -- but precisely because that isn't what Lucy wants and it would be hilarious if he tried in his super awkward, broken way to express admiration and respect like that. But for fandom to just automatically slot her into the role of sunshine sidekick child when she has her own story and it isn't that is weird to me. I don't see any justification for it narratively.

Do I think they're going to get together in canon? No, I think they're supposed to have the intense "good guy"/rogue dynamics with subtextual eroticism that are common between men in Westerns (like, say, Boyd and Raylan from Justified - Boyd being one of Walton Goggins' most celebrated roles; could they have chosen him because they wanted that kind of vibe for Lucy's lead?) only Lucy is a female lead (shrug) and like in those Westerns the canon love interests are already set BUT it will be fun to watch their "....how are two people so intimate and not fucking???" stuff go down and non-canon shipping will be fun -- and the canon relationships are well written (a show with two well written canon romances! one tragic and the other hopeful - delightful tbqh) so it can be enjoyable on multiple levels.

@infernaliscor — lucy maclean starter call / accepting!

        “Thank you,” Lucy says, echoes of relief in her voice despite the wariness in her eyes. A few days ago, the dead ghoul this stranger just took out would have been enough to win her trust. Now, she's learned to be more careful. “Sorry, I just...” Lucy exhales a sigh. “I haven't met too many people up here who are willing to help each other out.” She swallows, trying not to think too much about how dry her mouth has gotten, or the taste of dust on her tongue. “I'm Lucy.”

lucy: excuse me, he said no pickles. :)

maximus standing behind her in full armor: 🧍🏿‍♂️

lucy (gesturing to max): this is the boyfriend i go to when i want to really just be my best self. 😊

lucy (gesturing to coop): and this is the boyfriend i go to when i have to commit atrocities to survive. 😊

wilzig was so funny for letting lucy do her whole pep talk before telling her he took a cyanide pill. he could've stopped her at any time.

like for a bg3 au lucy starter, specifically! mutuals only, multis pls specify muse/s, etc!

something about the fact that lucy bites off the ghoul's trigger finger and he decides to replace it with lucy's own finger. compels me.

i am so obsessed with this specific poster for fallout and how it gives lucy such a highly active, non-sexualized pose. gods fucking BLESS whoever designed this one. a+++++. no notes.

↪ memes — accepting!

@faultyconscience (moldaver) said: “i don't think you've changed much.” - to Lucy

        “Don't...” Lucy turns away from her father to face Moldaver, wiping a few stray tears from her cheek with the end of her dirtied sleeve. “Don't do that, please. You knew my mother.” She shakes her head. “You don't know me.”

something about that scene where the ghoul confesses to lucy's "crimes" while sewing her finger onto his hand...

pov: you ask lucy what she was up to when the nautiloid snatched her and she describes, in cheerful detail, cutting the head off a man's corpse before it was cold.

bg3!lucy's armor/aesthetic are very steampunk-esque, i think. gonna look around for some reference images later.

some bg3 au lucy ideas, now that her dnd character sheet is (mostly) finished and available at the bottom of her carrd page:

lucy is a descendant of a faction of people who moved into stone bunkers underground when the spellplague began in 1385DR. so they are technically in the underdark but not of the underdark.

as they had no contact with the above world and believed the spellplague to be a world-ending event, the faction remained in their bunker (aka vault) for the next 107 years.

in 1492DR, lucy's vault is raided by a band of outsiders whose leader kidnaps her father, compelling lucy to venture up to the surface to find him.

at some point during its plane hopping chaotic crash course to the sword coast, the nautiloid passes over and snatches lucy. she is not tav and/or durge, but an additional tadpoled companion they can recruit into the party.

her personal quest involves finding her dad, ofc. details to come.

chet trying to go with lucy at the last minute was so stupid of him and she was so smart for keeping a tranq dart handy. he didn't even have backpack on him, so they would've both had to survive off of lucy's meager rations. she only planned to sustain herself (and she planned poorly out of sheer naivety to the situation on the surface), so they probably would've run out of both food and water way before they met the dude in the diaper.